Disclosed are examples of transaction cards incorporating aluminum or aluminum alloys. The aluminum can be extracted or recycled from a retired aircraft. Other materials can also be incorporated into the transaction card to provide sufficient weight and rigidity to the transaction card. Stainless steel can be incorporated into the construction of the card in combination with aluminum to provide a desired user experience.

This invention is designed to improve upon and solve the issues with insulated structural honeycomb core, such as Sing Core US patent #7,147,741, or other honeycomb cores. Sing Core uses a vertical grain veneer to achieve a high compression strength. The issue with vertical grain veneer is that there is no horizontal stability. The reinforced honeycomb structure as described in this patent can use vertical and horizontal grain veneer to have great compression strength and improved horizontal stability. The reinforced honeycomb core is composed of a sheet or multiple sheets of flat building materials adhered to a layer of filler material. The layering will continue in this fashion, alternating between the flat sheet(s) and the filler material(s) to form a large block. While the adhesive is still uncured, the stack of alternating flat building materials and filler materials can be placed in a press. The pressure will allow the adhesive to thoroughly bond across the whole block. Once the adhesive is fully cured, the block can be removed and sliced perpendicular to the flat sheet building materials, through the block. The thickness of the slices off of the block can be, but does not have to be, the same thickness as the filler material. The resulting slices can then be adhered to each other layering the slices to create cellular cavities filled with the filler materials. This can be placed in the press again and left under pressure until fully cured. Once cured the block can be removed from the press and can be sliced parallel to the face showing the cellular filled cavities.

Disclosed is a floor covering insulation for a motor vehicle with a multi-layer, preferably flocked, fibre insulation which, by a soft/smooth coupling layer to the wear surface, realises a sound insulation floor covering with improved acoustic and mechanical-physical properties, with a simultaneous reduction in weight if possible. Also disclosed is a method for manufacturing the sound insulation.

A system and methods for manufacturing and constructing a fence panel or pickets using engineered wood products, including, but not limited to, oriented-strand board (OSB), fiber strand, or laminated strand lumber. An entire piece of durable, treated engineered wood panel is divided into multiple fence blanks of equal size. Each fence blank is then subjected to edge profiling on top and bottom edges, and top feature milling to create fence top features, with finishing, texture, printing, paper overlay, or combinations thereof, added to one or both faces of the blank. Blanks may be milled in a stack. Blanks may then have grooves or other finishing features added to create a finished fence panel. Alternatively, a fence blank can be slit or cut into multiple raw pickets, also with finishing treatments to one or both faces, to create a series of raw pickets. The resulting finished fence panel or pickets provide the authentic look and appeal of real wood, but with the advantages of treated engineered wood.

The present invention is an apparatus and method for cutting individual label strips from a roll of label web utilizing a cutter assembly. A label cutter comprises a cutter assembly for continuously and independently controlling the rotational speeds of a rotating cutter shaft, a stationary shaft, and a label feed roller is provided. The length of the label strip is controlled by the distinct speed of rotation of a stationary knife, the stationary knife is rotatably coupled to the stationary shaft. At least one cutter blade is operatively associated to the rotating cutter shaft for cutting the label web. The stationary knife rotates with a speed of rotation different from the speed of rotation of the cutter blade to produce longer or shorter label length strips. The frequency at which the cutter blade meets the stationary knife is inversely related to the length of the label strip that is produced during cut off.

An inline edge-sealing apparatus and method for sealing the kerf surfaces of cut cellular PVC board includes a rotary saw with either a tandem sealing disc or with an integral elevated sealing surface that is dimensioned to provide precise interference with kerf surfaces for friction and heat to melt and seal the surfaces in an aesthetically desirable manner. A kerf splitter, such as a kerf splitting pin, rod or riving knife, may be provided following a saw blade with integral kerf-engaging surface to avoid disruption of the sealed surface when cut boards exit the saw blade teeth.

Apparatus and method disclosed herein are used in a production facility including an inventory of base substrates and laminates used in the production of graphics, the production facility further including at least one printer and at least one laminating machine. Base substrates, such as adhesive backed vinyl films, and laminates are received at the facility and labeled to be identified in a production process. Project data stored in a data storage system, and data concerning the substrates and laminates, is used by a production control system to control the process of printing graphic images on the substrate, and laminate the substrate.

A method for fabricating a flexible electronic device, including the steps of: providing channels on a rigid substrate; adhering a flexible substrate to the rigid substrate with an adhesive; fabricating an electronic device on the flexible substrate; injecting a chemical substance into the channels; and reacting the chemical substance with the adhesive and peeling the flexible substrate from the rigid substrate. The rigid substrate comprises a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a side wall extending between the first surface and the second surface. The channels are provided on the first surface of the rigid substrate. The channels are in communication with an injection port, the injection port is located on the side wall of the rigid substrate, and a portion of the side wall is located between the injection port and the first surface.

A laminate material with a metal exposed portion is efficiently produced. A peeling step is performed in which a laser beam L is irradiated on a resin layer 17, 18 of a laminate raw material 10 in which a resin layer 17, 18 is laminated on at least one surface of a metal foil 11 to peel the resin layer 17, 18 and the metal foil 11 to thereby form a peeled portion 21, 22. Thereafter, the resin layers 17 and 18 corresponding to the peeled portions 21 and 22 are cut off to expose the metal foil 11.

The heat conductive sheet of the present invention has a laminated structure of resin layers including a heat-conductive resin layer comprising a platy heat-conductive filler, a sheet major surface being a plane perpendicular to laminated faces of the resin layers, and the major axis of the platy heat-conductive filler being oriented at an angle of 60? or more with respect to the sheet major surface. According to the present invention, a heat conductive sheet that achieves improvement of the heat conductivity thereof can be provided while the amount of the platy heat-conductive filler used is reduced, and the method for producing the same can also be provided.